Tag: Google Cloud Pricing

Like everything in enterprise technology, pricing can be a bit complicated. Here’s an analysis from RightScale looking at how discounts alter the cloud pricing equation. Google comes out cheapest in most scenarios. With Amazon Web Services hosting its annual conference this week, talk about the price for performance and agility equation will be everywhere. Knowing […]

So Amazon built a service that does it for them, called Amazon Web Services Database Migration Service (DMS) . It promises to easily move Oracle’s customers (and other databases) to Amazon’s database in the AWS cloud. Now, Oracle is fighting back. It has launched its own AWS-killer cloud service, (aka Infrastructure as a Service) and wants […]

One of the benefits of cloud computing that’s often touted by providers is cutting costs: rather than having the hassle and expense of buying servers and equipping data centers, and paying for staff to maintain them, companies can offload their workloads to the cloud, where economies of scale around the infrastructure mean that costs are […]

Cloud providers kicked off 2016 with numerous price cuts and new cloud pricing models. Big vendors such as Amazon Web Services, Azure and Google are reducing prices on older technology to make way for newer products, such as reserved instance types, as well as trying to get enterprises to move to cloud. “Competitive cost cutting […]

Google is in a tenuous situation. Amazon has the early lead and tremendous pace of innovation, while IBM and Microsoft have deep roots with enterprise customers and know how to work on a broad range of workloads at scale, Reichman said. If those companies are viewed as the bookends of the public cloud market, Google […]

The report, which aims to give enterprises insight into the cloud pricing landscape, argues the market in Europe is maturing, but issues are not likely to appear immediately. “With demand likely to increase, we don’t think the European cloud market is facing serious price pressure in the short term, as long as it is suitably […]

Last year, we saw Amazon, Google, and Microsoft battle it out in a race to the bottom for cloud pricing. After a relatively quiet 2015, Google has restarted the transformation of cloud services to commodity priced services. Google stated that the company is reducing the prices of all Google Compute Engine Instance types. Indeed, Google […]

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Google vs AWS Pricing Comparison With the announcement of this new AWS RI pricing model, we’ve updated our AWS vs Google pricing comparisons. The change in AWS RIs does not affect on-demand prices, so Google continues to offer a lower cost since reducing its prices in October 2014. We compared Google Sustained Use discounts to […]

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‘No teeth’: experts concerned resale price caps won’t be effective At least 53 per cent like the idea of capping prices at 25 per cent above face value, something local ticket broker Kingsley Bailey says is unrealistic, even though he supports the idea. “There’s no teeth in that because there’s an unlevel playing field. They […]

Reacting to news of the boycott, the cinema chain says that it offers “a number of discounted opportunities” and that customers can contact them if they want help in “understanding how to access these deals”. This response has further angered a group that has recently been set up to highlight the disparity in cost that […]

Despite small gains in the late hours of the weekend, the cryptocurrency market suffered heavy losses last week. Prices appear to have found stability this morning, but most of the market has made a loss on the day. Bitcoin increased 0.63 percent to trade for $6,384.25, while Ethereum fell 2.67 percent to trade at $317.69. […]

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